Mount Vernon food drive

Photographs by ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER &amp; PRESS Harley Gorman takes the first swipe down his teacher, Tim Alcorn's head, with a pair of clippers during a schoolwide assembly Thursday morning at Mount Vernon Junior High as a reward for collecting 9,000 canned goods for the Posey County Food Pantry. Alcorn, principal Kyle Jones and Tom Kopatich, superintendent of the Metropolitan School District of Mount Vernon, agreed to shave their heads if the students beat last year's count of 4,000 cans. Alcorn's class brought in 1,900 cans, the most of cans out of all the homerooms. The students are hoping next year to beat this year's record.

Students at Mount Vernon Junior High School cheer as their principal, a teacher and the district superintendent get their heads shaved as a reward for the students bringing in 9,000 canned goods for the Posey County Food Pantry. In three weeks the students collected the canned goods which will feed needy families in Posey County for two months.

Boxes containing about 9,000 cans sit in a school but at Mount Vernon Junior High School waiting to be taken to the Posey County Food Pantry on Thursday morning.

ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER &amp; PRESS Roberta Duckworth of Green Duck Salon in Mount Vernon, Ind., shaves the head of Mount Vernon Junior High School Principal Kyle Jones during a schoolwide assembly Thursday morning. Jones, social studies teacher Tim Alcorn and Tom Kopatich, superintendent of the Metropolitan School District of Mount Vernon agreed to shave their heads if students could collect more than 4,000 cans for the Posey County Food Pantry in 15 days. The students collected about 9,000 cans which will provide food for needy families for two months.